#028 05-02-77 Issue Recreation Gross Revenue BondsResolution No. 28
May 2, 1977
Member Thorsen introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE
AND SALE OF $500,000. RECREATION
SYSTEM GROSS REVENUE BONDS
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Golden Valley, Minnesota,
as follows:
SECTION 1. BOND AUTHORIZATION
1.01 This City now operates a program of public recreation and playgrounds
pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Sections 471.15 to 471.191; and as part of the
program owns and operates a system of recreational facilities, including the Brookview
golf course and related facilities comprising a driving range, a restaurant, a
golf shop and clubhouse facilities. It is necessary and expedient for the City
to construct improvements to the existing golf course and to construct an additional
nine hole par three course as part of the existing Brookview gold course. The
estimated total cost of such project, including capitalized interest and necessary
reserves, is $490,000. All of such facilities, including the proposed project
and any additions or improvements thereto, are herinafter referred to as "the
Municipal Recreation System."
1.02 Under Minnesota Statutes, Section 471.191, the City has authority to
issue revenue bonds to finance the cost of the proposed project, and to pledge
to the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon, the gross revenues of the
Municipal Recreation System. The City presently has no outstanding bonds which
constitute a lien or charge on such revenues.
1.03 This Council hereby authorizes the issuance of $500,000 principal amount
of Recreation System Gross Revenue Bonds to finance the cost of the proposed
project, and including $10,000 of bonds representing interest authorized pursuant to
Minnesota Statutes, 475.56. The bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable
solely from and secured by a first lien and charge on the gross revenues to be
derived by the City from the Municipal Recreation System.
1.04 The City presently operates, and will continue to operate, the Municipal
Recreation System as a revenue producing public convenience, open on equal terms
to all residents of the City and the surrounding area, and will impose rates and
charges for the use of the System sufficient to produce gross revenues in the amount
needed to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds herein authorized when due;
and, together with any amounts provided by the City in its annual budget each year
sufficient to pay all costs of operation, administration and maintenance of the
System when due.
SECTION 2. BOND TERMS: NOTICE OF SALE
T.G. Evensen and Associates, Inc., bond consultants to the City,has presented
to this Council a form of Official Notice of Sale for the bonds authorized in
paragraph 1 to be sold and issued, and a form of abbreviated notice of sale for
publication, which notices are attached hereto, and which are hereby approved and
shall be placed on file. Each and all of the provisions of the Official Notice
of Sale ar-d hereby adopted as the terms and conditions of said bonds and of the
sale thereof, and shall be made available to all prospective purchasers of the
bonds. The City Clerk is authorized and directed to cause the abbreviated notice
of sale to be published once in the official newspaper of the City, and once in the
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Resolution No. 28 Con't
May 2, 1977
Commercial West, a financial periodical published in Minneapolis, at least
tend days before the date of said meeting.
SECTION 3. SALE MEETING
The Council shall meet at the time and place specified in the Official
Notice of Sale to consider the bids and take such action thereon as is deemed to
be in the best interests of the City.
Mayor Robert R. Hoover
Attest:
John Murph City Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by
Member Anderson, and upon vote being taken thereon, all present voted infavor thereof
and none voted against the same, whereupon the resolution was declared duly passed
and adopted and was approved and signed by the Mayor, whose signature was attested
by the City Clerk.